UI idea: Turn the status bar into a docker (or several dockers)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 23.08.2012 14:40, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 23 August 2012 14:31, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> while discussing the best way to implement the word count in the Author UI,
>> I had an idea for the Calligra UI in general.
>> Flexibility is one of the key advantages of the Calligra UI. One of the few
>> UI parts that are currently not flexible is the status bar. That's why I
>> asked myself:
>> "Why not put the the things currently displayed in the status bar in one or
>> several docker(s), put these dockers at the bottom by default (or maybe
>> someplace else if that works better for a particular application) and remove
>> the standard status bar?"
>> This would allow to keep the current layout as default while preserving
>> maximum flexibility. To me, this is the logical consequence of the "Flexible
>> UI" paradigm of Calligra.
>> So, what do you think about it? Did I miss any problems/downsides?
>
> This is good idea observed in dynamically configured apps, e.g.
> Firefox and generally XUL allows the plugins to inject ui bits in such
> places too.
> I plan to have view-related actions (dependent on context/plugin used)
> in Kexi's statusbar for example.

Well technically it wouldn't be a statusbar anymore, then ;) But if you can 
inject stuff into a standard statusbar, you can shot it in a statusbar docker as 
well, correct?